Publications: (#: co-first author, *: corresponding author)

Danhua Xin, James Edward Daniell, Zhenguo Zhang, Friedemann Wenzel, Shaun Shuxun Wang, Xiaofei Chen (2024), The grid-level fixed asset model developed for China from 1951 to 2020, under review.

Xianrui Li, Shaopeng Huang, Tobias Hergert, Andreas Henk, Danhua Xin (2024), Contemporary crustal stress in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, SE China: Implications for geothermal resource exploration and seismic hazard assessment, under review.

Xiaofang Chen, Danhua Xin, Keming Wen, Peng Du, Zhenguo Zhang, Wei Zhang, Shaun Shuxun Wang, Xiaofei Chen (2024), Seismic damage assessment for individually investigated buildings in Shenzhen, China, submitted.


  1. Danhua Xin, Zhenguo Zhang*, Bo Chen, Friedemann Wenzel, Yilong Li, Xiaofei Chen (2024), Can We Develop a More Targeted Approach to Mitigating Seismic Risk?, npj Natural Hazards, 19(2024): 1-21, doi: 10.1038/s44304-024-00020-z.
  2. Yilong Li#, Danhua Xin#, Zhenguo Zhang* (2023), Estimating the economic loss caused by earthquake in Mainland China, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 95(2023): 103708, doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103708.
  3. 王文强，李懿龙，张振国*，信丹华，何仲秋，张伟，陈晓非(2023)，2022年9月5日泸定M6.8级地震灾害损失快速评估，中国科学：地球科学，https://doi.org/10.1360/SSTe-2022-0290.
  4. Yilong Li#, Danhua Xin#, Zhenguo Zhang* (2021), A Rapid-Response Earthquake Fatality Estimation Model for Mainland China, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 66(2021): 102618, doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102618.
  5. Danhua Xin*, James Edward Daniell*, Hing-Ho Tsang, Friedemann Wenzel (2021), Residential building stock modelling for mainland China targeted for seismic risk assessment, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(10), 3031-3056, doi: 10.5194/nhess-21-3031-2021.
  6. Danhua Xin, Zhenguo Zhang* (2021), On the comparison of seismic ground motion simulated by physics-based dynamic rupture and predicted by empirical attenuation equations, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 111(5): 2595-2616, doi: 10.1785/0120210077.
  7. Yilong Li, Zhenguo Zhang, Danhua Xin* (2021), A Composite Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes for Mainland China, Seismological Research Letters, doi: 10.1785/0220210090.
  8. Zhenguo Zhang*, Wenqiang Zhang, Danhua Xin, Kejie Chen, Xiaofei Chen (2020), A dynamic-rupture model of the 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake being compatible with the observations, Seismological Research Letters, 92(2A):870-876, doi: 10.1785/0220200258.
  9. Danhua Xin*, James Edward Daniell, Friedemann Wenzel (2020), Review article: Review of fragility analyses for major building types in China with new implications for intensity–PGA relation development, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 20(2): 643-672, doi: 10.5194/nhess-20-643-2020.
  10. Danhua Xin (2019), Compatibility of Seismic Hazard and Risk Calculations with Historical Observations, Dissertation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, doi: 10.5445/IR/1000104392.
  11. Danhua Xin, Xiaodong Song*, Tao Wang (2015), Localized temporal variation of Earth's inner-core boundary from high-quality waveform doublets, Earthquake Science, 28(3): 175-185, doi: 10.1007/s11589-015-0125-0.